REFUGEE'S STORY
HER HUSBAND SHOT
ESCAPE TO ENGLAND
(Received August 6, 2.45 p.m.)
LONDON, August 6. Mrs. Diana Avail (daughter of RearAdmiral Claude Cumberlege), whose husband was shot in the disturbances near Toledo, reached London with other refugees.
"When the troubles started,.we. left my husband's farm and. stayed with friends at Talavera," she said. "A week later a gang- hammered at the door at 3.a.m. and asked our host, his son, arid my husband to go into the garden. We waited in agony and heard three shots three minutes later. Then I knew my .husband was 'dead. Two poachers whom my husband once caught stealing told the mob that he was a Fascist. That was his death warrant. Next morning armed youths threatened us from behind trees in the garden. A. maid servant went to. the Town Hall clandestinely and impressed our papers with Government stamps, enabling us to go to Valencia, where we boarded H.M.Si Devonshire. Everything we had is destroyed or stolen. Father reached his yacht in time to escape the rabble, or he would also have been shots"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 10
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181REFUGEE'S STORY Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 10
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